Overview
- Posts about her switch spread across X and Instagram on Tuesday and drew wide reaction, and Sharma reshared one on Instagram Stories with a folded hands emoji.
- Sharma graduated from Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women and built experience through internships at X in 2022, Google in 2023, and a stint at Intuit.
- She joined Google full time in 2024, worked for about one and a half years, and then moved to Palantir earlier this year as a software engineer.
- Palantir builds data tools for large organizations, including governments, which has prompted debate about ethics and the kinds of real-world problems engineers want to tackle.
- The episode is feeding a broader shift in tech conversations toward valuing problem scope and growth over brand prestige for early-career moves.